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Speaker 2: I'm David Flora and I'm Annie Flora, and we're here
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Speaker 2: Jimothy things happening in the world. Seattle, since that's where
Speaker 2: Jimothy's from, is embracing Jimothy the most. And there was
Speaker 2: an arts fair that was all Jimothy themed. Everything that
Speaker 2: was there looked amazing. And the Mariners had like a
Speaker 2: drinks the Jimothy Drink special that you could get, which
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Speaker 1: I don't know. I love it. That's that's all the correcters.
Speaker 1: That is all correct.
Speaker 2: Yes, And the Oatmeal does a race every year called
Speaker 2: Beat the Blurch and their medal was a Jimothy awesome.
Speaker 2: I'm very sad that I will not be running that
Speaker 2: race because that's the best medal ever. Hey, David, should
Speaker 2: we just dive in.
Speaker 1: I'd like to yay.
Speaker 2: Here's how the show works.
Speaker 1: Wiz Quiz Bang Bang's format is four rounds of four
Speaker 1: questions each followed by the answers. After round two, we'll
Speaker 1: ask a quick fire bang bang question where you'll have
Speaker 1: a time limit to give multiple answers. After the fourth round,
Speaker 1: the show culminates with the Big Bang, a final round
Speaker 1: with three questions whose answers are all clues to one
Speaker 1: final question.
Speaker 2: Round one. Question one, the category is television. Which comedian
Speaker 2: ended her weekly shows by tugging on her left ear lobe.
Speaker 2: Question two, the category is geography. This question comes from
Speaker 2: listener Ava, Thank you Eva. Which Wisconsin peninsula is nicknamed
Speaker 2: the Cape Cod of the Midwest. It has three hundred
Speaker 2: miles of shoreline in more lighthouses than any other county
Speaker 2: in the US. Question three, the category is history. William
Speaker 2: the Conqueror is most famous for conquering what. Question four.
Speaker 2: The category is comics. This question comes from listener James.
Speaker 1: Thank you, James, Thank you.
Speaker 2: James, also known for his role on mash who played
Speaker 2: Charlie Brown in the nineteen sixty seven off Broadway musical
Speaker 2: You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Now. The answer
Speaker 2: is around one. Question one, which comedian ended her weekly
Speaker 2: shows by tugging on her left ear lobe. Carol Burnett,
Speaker 2: her grandmother raised her, and she was like, let me
Speaker 2: know that you're okay, say hi to me at the
Speaker 2: end of your shows. And Carol's like, I don't think
Speaker 2: they'll let me just be like hi, Grandma. So she's like,
Speaker 2: but I'll tug on my left earlobe and that will
Speaker 2: let you know doing well and I love you. Question two.
Speaker 2: Which Wisconsin peninsula is nicknamed the cape Cod of the Midwest. Well,
Speaker 2: guess what Ava's boyfriend You're going there is Door County, Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: That's literally adorable.
Speaker 2: Ah. Question three. William the Conqueror is most famous for
Speaker 2: conquering What England. Question four, also known for his role
Speaker 2: on Mash, who played Charlie Brown in a nineteen sixty
Speaker 2: seven off Broadway musical You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Speaker 2: Gary Berghoff, and he was not in the nineteen seventy
Speaker 2: three broadcast because of MASH that had started up and
Speaker 2: then that went on to become an animated version in
Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five.
Speaker 1: So he was in the off Broadway show of it.
Speaker 1: Bud didn't get on the TV version because he was
Speaker 1: too busy with Mash. Right, yeah, okay, Round two. Question five.
Speaker 1: The category is animals What is it called when fish
Speaker 1: fertilize externally? Question six? Category Music and film. This one
Speaker 1: comes from listener Leela. Thank you, Leela, Thank you, Leila.
Speaker 1: The nineteen seventy three movie Pat Garrett and Billy the
Speaker 1: Kid starred, What two music idols? Question seven category literature?
Speaker 1: The Anna and din or Shadow of the Leviathan series,
Speaker 1: which include A Trade of Blood, a Drop of Corruption,
Speaker 1: and the Hugo Award winning the Tainted Cup, are all
Speaker 1: by what author? Question eight category sports. This one comes
Speaker 1: from listener Teresa. Thank you, Teresa, Thank you, Teresa. E
Speaker 1: ten has been described as the mecca of long distance
Speaker 1: running and is located in what country? And now? The
Speaker 1: answer is a round two. Question five, what is it
Speaker 1: called when fish fertilize externally? Spawning question six? The nineteen
Speaker 1: seventy three movie Pat Garrett and Billy the Kids starred,
Speaker 1: What to music idols? Christofferson played Billy the Kid and
Speaker 1: Bob Dylan played Alias.
Speaker 2: He also contributed to the soundtrack. Have you ever heard
Speaker 2: of a little song David called Knocking on Heaven's Door?
Speaker 1: Sure? He wrote that for this So he didn't play
Speaker 1: Pat Garrett.
Speaker 2: Nope. James Coburn played Pat Garrett's okay.
Speaker 1: Question seven. A trait of Blood, a drop of corruption,
Speaker 1: and the Tainted Cup are all by what author Robert
Speaker 1: Jackson Bennett.
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Speaker 1: Question eight e ten has been described as the mecca
Speaker 1: of long distance running and is located in what country
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Speaker 2: That's it for the first half, which means it's time
Speaker 2: for the Bang Bang Round. The category for this week's
Speaker 2: Bang Bang Round is geography. This question comes from listener
Speaker 2: Major Data, Thank you, Maja. According to the National Park Service,
Speaker 2: the hydrographic Great the internally draining region of the Western
Speaker 2: United States, extends into what eight states? Your time starts now?
Speaker 1: And that's time? What eight states does the Great Basin
Speaker 1: extend in two? They are Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho,
Speaker 1: and Oregon. That is from the National Parks Service. A
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 2: Round three. Question nine, the category is science. Who is
Speaker 2: considered the father of modern chemistry? Question ten? The category
Speaker 2: is society and culture. This question comes from listener Bubby.
Speaker 2: Thank you Bobby, Thank you Bobby, along with a cash prize.
Speaker 2: What do contestants win in the Nathan's Famous International Hot
Speaker 2: Dog Eating Contest? Question eleven, the category.
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Speaker 2: Mare Imbrium or the Sea of Showers or Sea of
Speaker 2: Rains is a lava plane within the Imbrium basin located
Speaker 2: where Question twelve, the category is Food and Drink. This
Speaker 2: question comes from listener Dan. Thank you Dan, Thank you Dan.
Speaker 2: What flavor was the original cream filling of Twinkies? And
Speaker 2: now the answer is to a round three? He questioned nine.
Speaker 2: Who is considered the father of modern chemistry? Antoine Lorraine Levosier.
Speaker 2: That's la v O I si e r. In case
Speaker 2: my French accent was too good He's noted for his
Speaker 2: discovery that the role of oxygen plays in combustion. He
Speaker 2: named oxygen in seventeen seventy eight, recognizing it as an element,
Speaker 2: and also recognized hydrogen as an element in seventeen eighty three.
Speaker 2: And I think he did something about changing it from
Speaker 2: qualitative to quantitative, which was good for the study of chemistry.
Speaker 1: So they stopped arranging him by which one was the coolest.
Speaker 1: This was a mercury at the time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's that's right.
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Speaker 2: your personality.
Speaker 1: All the glitters is not gold carbon.
Speaker 2: Question ten. Along with a cash prize, what do contestants
Speaker 2: win in the Nathan's Famous International Hot Dog Eating Contest?
Speaker 2: A mustard belt. It's kind of like those wrestling belts,
Speaker 2: but mustardy.
Speaker 1: If you're not winning respect, you gotta win something.
Speaker 2: I can't do it, No, I don't want to. Question eleven.
Speaker 2: Mare Imbrium or the sea of showers or Sea of
Speaker 2: rains is a lava plane with the imbrium basin located
Speaker 2: where the moon. Question twelve, what flavor was the original
Speaker 2: cream filling of Twinkies? Banana? Speaking of banana, we got
Speaker 2: three write ins about bananas, so we hope you stick
Speaker 2: around for the end of the episode because we have
Speaker 2: a ton of fun banana facts. It's the most fun
Speaker 2: facts we've ever had written in for an episode. So
Speaker 2: thank you for the gross Michelle Branch of Good Tastes
Speaker 2: right in Tasty Lick because it got people talking, turned
Speaker 2: to send.
Speaker 1: A regular banana republic over Round four. Question thirteen. The
Speaker 1: category is Games and Hobbies. Which board game that won
Speaker 1: the spiel drs in twenty fourteen? Has you collect precious
Speaker 1: jewels and gems like emeralds, sapphires, rubies and diamonds. Question fourteen,
Speaker 1: Category Religion. This one comes from Brian the language guy.
Speaker 1: Thank you Brian, Thank you, Brian. A Huramazda is the
Speaker 1: main deity of which religion? Question fifteen. The category is mythology.
Speaker 1: Which Greek goddess of love and beauty was said to
Speaker 1: be born from sea foam? Question sixteen Category theater. Which
Speaker 1: composer has won the most Tony awards? And now the
Speaker 1: answer is for round four? Question thirteen. Which board game
Speaker 1: the one the Spieler Yaris in twenty fourteen? Has you
Speaker 1: collect precious jewels and gems splendor? Question fourteen A Huramazda
Speaker 1: is the main deity of which religion Zoroastrianism. The literal
Speaker 1: meanings of the words Ahura and Mazda are Lord and wisdom, respectively.
Speaker 1: Question fifteen. Which goddess of love and beauty was said
Speaker 1: to be born from sea foam aphrodite? Question sixteen? Which
Speaker 1: composer has won the most Tony Awards? That is Stephen Sondheim.
Speaker 2: And that's it for the regular rounds, which means it's
Speaker 2: time for the Big Bang Round. The category for this
Speaker 2: week's Big Bang Round is Society and Culture. This question
Speaker 2: comes from listener Jus. Thank you, Joe, Thank you Jos.
Speaker 2: We will give you three clue questions, which are all
Speaker 2: hints to one final question. The clue questions may not
Speaker 2: fall under the same category. Question in which TV show
Speaker 2: would you find the fictional bands Jesse and the Rippers
Speaker 2: and Hot Daddy in the Monkey Puppets?
Speaker 1: Question two. According to director Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised
Speaker 1: so much of what film that depending on the editing
Speaker 1: of it, it could have been rated PG, PG thirteen
Speaker 1: or R.
Speaker 2: Question three, which nineteen eighty nine novel by Amy Tan
Speaker 2: focuses on four Chinese immigrant families who start a Marjon
Speaker 2: club that shares its name with the title of the book, and.
Speaker 1: Your Big Bang Question again the category Society and Culture
Speaker 1: the United Nations Charter was drafted and ratified in what
Speaker 1: City in nineteen forty five, and now.
Speaker 2: The answers to the Big Bang round Question one? In
Speaker 2: which TV show would you find the bands Jesse and
Speaker 2: the Rippers and Hot Daddy and the Monkey Puppets Full House?
Speaker 1: Question two? According to Chris Columbus, Robin Williams improvised so
Speaker 1: much of what film that, depending on the editing, could
Speaker 1: have been PGPG thirteen or Our Missus Doubtfire. It ended
Speaker 1: up being a PG thirteen film, so right in the middle.
Speaker 2: It'd be fun to see the R version, right well.
Speaker 1: I've like the fan cuts where they make a trailer
Speaker 1: that makes it seem like a horror three.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Question three, which nineteen eighty nine novel by Amy Tan,
Speaker 2: focuses on four Chinese immigrant families who start Amagen club
Speaker 2: that shares its name with the title of the book,
Speaker 2: The Joy Luck Club.
Speaker 1: And finally, the United Nations Charter was drafted and ratified
Speaker 1: in what city in nineteen forty five? The city where
Speaker 1: Full House, Misses, Doubt, Fire, and The Joy Luck Club
Speaker 1: all take place. It's San Francisco.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we thought that was super interesting. Boy, I don't
Speaker 2: associate the chart of the United Nations.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that would have been my top five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: New York, DC, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, those would have been.
Speaker 2: Yeah. For some reason, you think East, you don't think West.
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, I mean the United Nations building is in
Speaker 1: New York City, right, yeah, Boston.
Speaker 2: Hey David, this is interesting, huh. But you know what's
Speaker 2: even more interesting but not I Three separate listeners wrote
Speaker 2: in to tell us more about bananas, and I love it.
Speaker 2: I love learning fun facts. So please please send these
Speaker 2: in because this may we were just like another banana
Speaker 2: email and we got excited for each one. The first
Speaker 2: one is from Melanie.
Speaker 1: Thank you Melanie Melody, and.
Speaker 2: She says we are longtime listeners from New Brunswick, Canada. Yay.
Speaker 2: She says, I teach plant ecology, which is awesome and
Speaker 2: I love talking about the gross Michelle banana in my
Speaker 2: classes as an example of what can happen when we
Speaker 2: have monoclonal monocultures. So here's a bit more info about it.
Speaker 2: As a follow up from the previous week's quiz. The
Speaker 2: gross Michelle was nearly wiped out in the nineteen fifties
Speaker 2: and sixties by panama a soil fungus aka Fusarium wilt.
Speaker 2: Because commercial banana are sterile clones grown as exact genetic copies,
Speaker 2: the fungus was extremely rapidly destructive. They were replaced by
Speaker 2: the Cavendish variety because they were more resistant to that
Speaker 2: disease and were easy to ship and had a long
Speaker 2: shelf life. They were, however, less tasty. This is also
Speaker 2: in part why banana flavor doesn't taste like currant bananas,
Speaker 2: as the taste was based on the gross Michelle variety.
Speaker 2: It's also important to note that the Cavendish variety is
Speaker 2: also a clone, hence it is susceptible to another epidemic
Speaker 2: in the future. Oh so that is very interesting. We'll
Speaker 2: do all three listener things and then we'll talk about bananas.
Speaker 1: We heard from listener Jessup. Thank you, Jessup, Thank you
Speaker 1: jess Up. Jessup says, you had a question regarding bananas
Speaker 1: and the Gross Michelle aka Big mic in Fringe. So
Speaker 1: the real deal there is that the Big mic was
Speaker 1: the standard table banana in stores until it was destroyed
Speaker 1: by a blight. The Caven dish is the banana we
Speaker 1: eat now. And jessup Al also says the banana flavored
Speaker 1: candy is the Gross Michelle flavor that it's mimicking.
Speaker 2: That's so crazy.
Speaker 1: That is I mean banana flavor. You don't like it?
Speaker 1: I do, yeah, And it is like it's different, strangely, yeah,
Speaker 1: not what we eat. Yeah, Like it is banana flavor,
Speaker 1: but it's not banana. It's not cavendish.
Speaker 2: It's not cavendish banana.
Speaker 1: It is banana or banana.
Speaker 2: And Dan, who also sent us a twinkie question, Hey Dan,
Speaker 2: thank you, Dan says Gross Michelle bananas are a favorite
Speaker 2: topic of mine, as I read when bananas hit the
Speaker 2: world market late eighteen hundreds, they were a sensation. These
Speaker 2: were the Gross Michelle variety. Evidently they tasted like banana
Speaker 2: flavoring taste. Now, I think the artificial chemical was made
Speaker 2: from banana itself. Then back in the fifties or so
Speaker 2: an incurable fungus h bananas worldwide, but the mildly banana
Speaker 2: flavored Cavendish was immune. Gross Michelle still exists, but you
Speaker 2: have to travel to get them. Hawaii should be close enough.
Speaker 2: My friend in Hawaii says a gross Michelle is not
Speaker 2: the only variety available there. I have been to Hawaii
Speaker 2: four times and was so busy scarfing down Sunrise papayas
Speaker 2: I know clue about looking for a plain old banana.
Speaker 2: I won't make that mistake if I ever go back.
Speaker 2: I would also love to try chestnuts roasting on an
Speaker 2: open fire, but those were American chestnuts, which do not
Speaker 2: exist the nut but may again someday. Isn't food fun, right?
Speaker 2: This is like chestnuts cat roast on an open fire.
Speaker 2: Thank you all of you for sending that in because
Speaker 2: we didn't know, and it's very interesting. But it's something
Speaker 2: I have complained about before to David, where I don't
Speaker 2: like artificial banana flavor, so I'd be very interested in
Speaker 2: eating a gross Michelle banana to see if I don't
Speaker 2: like them. They say they're more flavorful, so I would
Speaker 2: love to try it. But whenever I eat artificial banana,
Speaker 2: also artificial grape. I don't, you know, like if you're
Speaker 2: any Skills or Starbucks.
Speaker 1: Or whatever variety.
Speaker 2: Yeah, right, because both of them they don't taste like
Speaker 2: the real thing to me, and I don't like them.
Speaker 2: I like bananas, apparently cavendish bananas, and I like grapes,
Speaker 2: but I yeah, I've never had a gross Michelle, I
Speaker 2: don't think so. If we travel, it's a funny thing because,
Speaker 2: like Dan said, you know, if you're in Hawaii, you
Speaker 2: don't think let me try a Hawaii banana. But now
Speaker 2: I do kind of want to keep my eye out
Speaker 2: when we travel and be like, oh hey, what kind
Speaker 2: of bananas do they have here?
Speaker 1: My question is is it endangered? Is it not just
Speaker 1: not viable that it's produced and shipped because of the
Speaker 1: shelf life and stuff? Is can we not grow it
Speaker 1: close enough to get it here? You know what I mean?
Speaker 1: Did it wipe out everything? Everybody's saying we still have
Speaker 1: it here and there, but just not as prevalent.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Also side note for what at some point I heard
Speaker 1: that the banana herbaceous plant all we have in the
Speaker 1: world is all we're gonna have, or something like it
Speaker 1: doesn't regrow or it sounds sketchy to me, so maybe
Speaker 1: one of you guys can can clear that up.
Speaker 2: More banana bacs please, I would.
Speaker 1: Like some more banana facts. And this has been Banana Corner.
Speaker 2: So thank you for the fun banana facts, and thank
Speaker 2: you for the listener questions, and thank you for listening,
Speaker 2: if indeed you so.
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Speaker 2: Realizing that several machines used for making cream filled strawberry
Speaker 2: shortcakes sat idle when strawberries were out of season, Doer
Speaker 2: conceived of a snackcake filled with banana cream, which he
Speaker 2: dubbed Twinkie. He said he came up with a name
Speaker 2: when he saw billboard in Saint Louis for twinkle toe shoes.
Speaker 2: He's like, twin gee, that's what it was like. That
Speaker 2: was there.
Speaker 1: He's like, this food reminds me of